Windows Azure HDInsight is the simplest option to get a Hadoop cluster up and running very quickly in a Windows Azure environment. Among other numerous advantages, this service allows to use Windows Azure blob storage (ASV or Azure Storage Vault for short) exactly as HDFS (Hadoop distributed file system...

Announced at the //build conference, HDInsight is available as a Web Platform Installer installation. This allows to have Hadoop on a Windows box (like a laptop) without requiring cygwin. Comme annoncé à la conférence //build , HDInsight est disponible à l’installation depuis Web Platform Installer....

I worked on a white paper which has just been published on MSDN J’ai travaillé sur un livre blanc qui vient d’être publié sur MSDN Leveraging a Hadoop cluster from SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) I’d like to point out that the paper comes with sample code (thanks Rémi !) that can also be used...

The session about server side JavaScript is available online with its slides and its video. Here are the links (NB: the content is in French) La session “JavaScript aussi sur le serveur et jusque dans le cloud?” est disponible en ligne http://aka.ms/wd3afq JavaScript becomes more and more important and...

In a previous post, I talked about analyzing 1 TB of IIS logs with JavaScript thru Hadoop Map/Reduce . In this post, let’s see how to copy and use the result of these jobs to SQL Azure. Dans un billet précédent, il a été question de l'analyse d'1 To de logs IIS avec...

  As described in a previous post , Microsoft has ported Apache Hadoop to Windows Azure (this will also be available on Windows Server). This is available as a private community technology preview for now. Comme nous l’avons vu dans un billet précédent, Microsoft a porté Apache Hadoop sur Windows...

Here is one of the use cases of Hadoop on Azure: you have a few applications accumulating data over time and you need to execute batches against this data a few times a month. You need many machines in an Hadoop cluster, but most of the time, you don’t need the cluster, just the data. Voici un des cas...

A preview version of Hadoop on Windows Azure is available. The details of that availability is at Une pré-version d’Hadoop sur Azure est disponible. Les détails de cette disponibilité sont à availability-of-community-technology-preview-ctp-of-hadoop-based-service-on-windows-azure.aspx A good introduction...